New Photos - Copper Kettle Cañon & Florida Poppies

Photos are: Left top: Copper Kettle Cañon, Florida Mountains; Right top: possible Apache site, Copper Kettle Cañon; Bottom left: poppies along east slope of the Florida Mountains; Bottom right: south end of the Florida Mountains & adjacent to Copper Kettle Cañon.
Copper Kettle Cañon is a place where a Lieutenant Wright fought Apaches from Victorio's group, in 1876. It is also where Corporal Greaves won the Medal Of Honor, as he pulled Lt. Wright and a badly wounded fellow Buffalo Soldier back out of an ambush. Lt. Wright, according to Dan Thrapp's "Encyclopedia Of The Frontier" fought the Apaches four or five times in the period, 1876-1880.
Victorio and a # of his Chihene N'de Apaches were killed @ Tres Castillos, Chihuahua, Mexico, in October, 1880. All the surviving women & children (and a few men), were sold into slavery, killing work in mines, or "adopted" by various Mexican families.
Some were returned to the U.S., but most disappeared forever into Mexico. Some wound up being sent to Cuba
by the Mexican government. This would mean that they were likely sold as slaves, even though that was illegal in
Mexico, and Spanish colonized Cuba.